Joseph S. Pete

Few people knew where the legendary tiger-keeping tattoo artist Roy Boy Cooper is buried, but local tattoo artists made pilgrimages there to sketch his tombstone.

It features a drawing of his prized white tiger Pearl and reads "The Legend Lives On," "Roy Boy Cooper 1945-2010," "World Famous" and his frequent saying "3 can keep a secret if 2 are dead."

The owners of Easy Tiger Tattoos in Merrillville, who are close friends of the Coopers, made a trip to the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Watseka, Illinois to trace Roy Boy's tombstone this week, only to discover it was missing.

"They texted me on Messenger that they hated to tell me this, but his tombstone was gone," said Cooper's wife, Debra "Dangerous Deb" Cooper, also an acclaimed and pioneering tattoo artist wh

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